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Sounds like it is Mondays only? That show hasn't been the same since he left.
Yeah I just couldn't get into Trevor Noah. Seemed like he always took the low hanging fruit.
I was only a casual viewer but I'd assume if someone really loved the Daily Show they could just watch the first 20 minutes of Colbert.
Looks like it's just once a week on Mondays. Daily Show followed by the Colbert Report was must watch TV every day for me. I just never could get into the show when Trevor Noah took over. Feels like it's going to be difficult to recapture that same vibe they had, but I'll give it a shot.
Meh.
When Jon Stewart got into the game there wasn't much for political content on late-night talk shows. Carson and Leno and Letterman back in the day relied more on observational comedy, skits, and celebrity gossip and culture than they did on politics as their main source of material "back in the day."
Now that's all that anybody does.
Bully for him and those who like it. It's just not novel anymore, and the market is mature.
When Jon Stewart got into the game there wasn't much for political content on late-night talk shows. Carson and Leno and Letterman back in the day relied more on observational comedy, skits, and celebrity gossip and culture than they did on politics as their main source of material "back in the day."
Now that's all that anybody does.
Bully for him and those who like it. It's just not novel anymore, and the market is mature.
I use to love the Colbert Report. IMO not nearly as entertaining on the Late Show. Just not the same.
He is a terrible Comedian. John made that show. It's like Cobert hosting David Lettermans show. He is terrible. Then again late night in a whole is terrible. Be nice to have a good comedian back.
I think mostly the show forgot that the point was to be funny. You can make partisan points while being funny.
People like Stewart, the late Anthony Bourdain and even Conan are/were simply the best true journalists we have today that reach a wide audience. Conan's travel shows open eyes in a revolutionary way, his trip to Israel/Palestine is required viewing, same for Bourdain's better episodes.
It's disguised journalism whether the disguise is food or comedy. I would laugh when people thought it was weird a cooking/food show was on CNN. The question should have been why the cooking show is the best hard hitting news on all of television.
Disagree. There was always political humor in late night talk. They were always taking shots at prominent politicians during their monologues. I would agree there is a little more bite to it now, but Daily Show is much different as a faux news show and Jon Stewart took it to the next level. It was never as good when Killborn was doing it, and it's never been as good since Stewart left. Add on top of it the incredible talent they had with correspondents like Colbert, Carell, John Oliver, Samantha Bee, and more and they really had something going. It seems the grind of doing it daily just burned them out, which I get.
There was never *zero* political content in late-night TV. I never said or thought that.
But there's both a quantitative and qualitative difference now compared to previous decades.
A few jokes about, say, George H.W. Bush vomiting at a state dinner on the PM of Japan and his general klutziness and aloofness before moving on to the celebrity gossip of the day or some sort of gimmicky skit is night and day different from the political content you see on late night nowadays.
The fact that most of Stewart's "graduate students" are still at it with their own shows on their own networks doing basically the same bit (even if not quite as good as the "grandmaster") is why I say the market is saturated. Stewart was interesting and fresh at one time. But now everybody sounds like him.
Fingers the Pulse has been the best thing by far the past few years. Love the way he fingers it.
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I remember Leno and Letterman telling Lewinsky-Clinton jokes every night in their monologue for like two years straight. I think they got more mileage out of that than any other event.
I think the difference is that politics used to be easier to laugh at. Modern politics is stranger and in many ways scarier than the wildest political satire from the 90s.
That's because Louie Gohmert is no longer in office. (couldn't find the Comedy Central classics on YouTube)
Agree. Later on with his show on Comedy Central, Stewart got a lot of pub for fusing his comedy with his own righteous indignation at current events, and the clown nose on, clown nose off routine is really hard to pull off. Having watched what he's done since, I imagine he is going to continue that and it won't be funny. But I'll check it out for sure.
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